 Okay, welcome everybody to the meeting of May 16th, 2016, a little after 7 p.m. I apologize, my husband low traffic went a little slower than we thought. Thank you to my colleagues for waiting for me to arrive. First is the consent agenda for the minutes of meetings, May 4th, 2016, May 9, 2016. Second is a request from the farmers' market, winery, application sale of wine for Lexington Consultant Group doing business as Turtle Creek Winery, Kipton Cummler, P.O. Box 60, Lincoln Massel 1773. Third is a special one-day beer and wine license for June 4th, 2016 at the Robbins-Woodermore House for a private party, just a fair. Fourth is our request for the annual Greek festival, June 2nd through June 5th, 2016, Reverend Nick Castanasa's pastor of the St. Athanasius of the Great for Appleton Street, and that comprises a four-day special one-day beer and wine license. Second part is a one-way designation of Appleton Place between Massav and Burton Street, and third is the street closing of Acton Place, and the last item on a consent agenda is a request for the use of the Jefferson Cutter Lawn on May 21st, 2016 for a Jimmy fundraiser, H.S. Scoops Club, Shivam Rustagi. Move approval. Move by Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Dunn. Is there anyone here to speak to any of these items? Any questions, discussion? If not, motion by Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Dunn. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. No, no, no, excuse me. Sorry. I have to abstain from the minutes of the meetings because I was traveling, but I support two, three, four, and five. Okay. First, I'll take a motion by Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Dunn for the minutes of the meetings May 4th and May 9th, 2016. All those in favor say aye. I'm sorry. I have to actually abstain from the ninth as well. That's right. Thank you, Mr. Greeley. First, if Mr. Burns agrees and Mr. Dunn, first a motion of approval for the minutes from May 4th, 2016. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, abstaining. Mr. Greeley. Sorry. I abstain. I have it. But I'm not connected. Then a motion by. I'm not connected to them. Sorry. Your motion is for two, three, five approval. We're going to do one, and then we'll do. So then again a motion, Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Dunn to approve the minutes of May 9th, 2016. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. All those abstaining. Abstain. Abstain. Abstain by Mr. Cureau and Mr. Greeley. And so a motion to approve agenda items two through five by Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Dunn for the discussion. If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Unanimous vote. Agenda item six, we have, thankfully, and I'm very happy about this, the appointment of a tree warden, our town manager, Mr. Chapter Lane. Thank you, Madam Chair. So as the board knows, starting in FY16, the town budgeted a part-time tree warden position, which was sort of an increase in scope and responsibilities from the former stipend position that was associated with the operations manager, the DPW. And that was really a sign of the growing and increased interest in town of doing a more sort of robust job of our tree planting plan, putting together our tree planting plan, looking at putting together a tree inventory, organizing our work with the utilities on tree pruning, and overall just enhancing our arbor care and tree care in town. So after an extensive search process, the HR director Karen Boy and DPW director, Mike Rademacher, found a candidate. They're very happy to have me here before recommending for your approval tonight. He's here. If you want to come up, his name is Tim Laquieve, and I brought him here tonight for the board to ask any questions they might have. And, you know, we're very hopeful to be able to bring him aboard. Malcolm, Mr. Laquieve. Thank you very much. Would like to just... Sure. Yeah, just, my name is Tim Laquieve. I'm here because I'm passionate about trees and I'm passionate about people. My philosophy is preserving the past and planting for the future. And I'd like to make Arlington the best tree city USA possible. And I'd like to not only preserve but also enhance the green canopy of Arlington. I grew up here in Arlington, Wolven 7 Fraser Road, between Mayrak and Summer Street Field. Went to elementary school at P.S. School. Went to junior high at Audison. And I went to Minuteman Tech because I found this is for me. This is when I was a young boy. Love being outside and climbing trees and planting and dealing with plants and flowers and things like this. So, here I am. So, I'm really excited and I'd love to be a part of Arlington. If it is any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer anything anybody has to say. Mr. No, Mr. Greeley. Well, I have some people I don't like. Can you put them up in trees? No, thank you very much. Anything's possible. Do you have a favor? I'll give you names after this meeting. Do you have a favorite tree? I do. My favorite tree is the Sugar Maple. That Sugar Maple just tells me New England. They're beautiful trees, structurally sound, beautiful autumn foliage that we all know. And they create maple syrup. And what's better on a Sunday morning than maple syrup on your favorite breakfast. So Sugar Maple. Thank you. Mr. Dunn. So, I'm curious, have you, this may be, you may answer, I haven't learned this yet or you may answer, I know this backwards and forwards. I'm just curious. Public trees and the process around how those are managed and when they should be, hearing should happen, when they should be taken down and stuff like that. Is that something that you've gotten into before? I have dealt with public trees with the Lexington street tree. They had a plan to put in sidewalks by elementary schools. So it's my job to go out, look at the trees, inspect them, and come up with a plan either to preserve or to remove. It's important to have sidewalks. It's important to be safe. Have the children have some place safe to walk to school. But also trying to preserve trees that are historic, especially in New England. So I had some experience on dealing with street trees and evaluations and plans to preserve. And sort of those result in some tree hearings and some that were contested? Yes, some of them were contested. I'm actually really glad to hear that. It's good for everybody to voice their opinion and come up with the best possible plan. Thank you very much. I'm sure you're aware and if you haven't Mr. Radamaka or the town manager will tell you if they haven't already. We recently passed I think a very progressive but workable tree bylaw that will involve you in some capacity as defined by the town manager and Mr. Radamaka. And from conversations with the town manager, he fails you, definitely have the strengths that you can bring what you need to the table to help implement that and work through, you know, any kinks or any suggestions that need to go forth in the future. The other thing that I believe Mr. Chapter Lane touched on when we had conversations with him, one of sort of, I don't want to say the tan amount, but top preferences is something that's really worked for Allington is the online request to answer question center. And I went through as we all did your resume curriculum vitae and I saw plant ID and I don't know if that had to do with informational technology, but I'm just wondering in terms of that facet of the job what your thoughts are on since technology is so advanced today. Also taking that on is an eighth piece of the pie in terms of dealing with online requests and the like. Sure. Yeah, I think that's great. Everybody's so busy today. So to get online and to have questions about different trees, different species of trees, I think that that's a great tool to use and to answer questions and to respond to the public. I know you'll have a lot of work with, you'll get a lot of calls or a lot of online requests saying the tree in front of my house is dead. Sure. Sometimes it's not necessarily that. Okay. But it seems from your experience in your background, you certainly can sort of work through those muddy waters in terms of working with the homeowner for town owned trees to go through the proper evaluation and assessment. Sometimes they are dead and sometimes it's a tree trimming. But you seem like you're sort of the people person that can also work with the DPW and the crews that go out there. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I've been working in the care industry for 23 years. So some people are easy to work with, other clients that are a little bit difficult, but it's just getting an understanding of personality, who they are sitting down and having a conversation with and coming up with the best plan possible. Great. And I don't think we need to vote on this because this is a town manager. No, so the town manager act actually requires a vote of approval from the board. Okay. A motion by Mr. Burns, second to buy. Second. Mr. Curell, any further discussion if not all those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed unanimously vote. Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Pleasure meeting everyone. Look forward to working with you. Thank you. And I do want to thank the town manager and the DPW director for their constant diligent, village and efforts in terms of getting an appropriate tree warden that really has to cover the whole genre of what it is that Arlington has. I like to think we're sort of in the forefront with maybe a few other communities, but not many that we're not only getting a well-rounded person, but a well-rounded position in terms of its definition. So I wish you all luck in moving forward with that. Have you met and worked with the tree committee yet? No, I've met to the members spectacular committee. Spectacular. Well, I'm looking forward. I'm very excited. Thank you so much. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Agenda item seven, informational technology advisory committee. Steve, no, sorry. Steven Revliac, a term to expire May 20th, 2019. Move approval. Second. No, no, need the speech. Need the speech. Okay. My name is Steve Revliac. I live at 111 Sunnyside Avenue. I've been an Arlington resident since 2007. I like it here a lot. I got involved with ITAC about a year ago, and it was mostly for the same reasons that I decided to run for town meeting. I like the community and I wanted to do something for it. I've been a software developer or software developer for 16 years. I have a PhD in computer science, so this is one area where I think I might have some skills of value. A PhD. Thank you. Mr. Curell and Mr. Dunn. Thank you. Thank you, Steve, for stepping up on this. It sounds like you've already been stepping up and attending the meetings up until now. I think it's always interesting when you're obviously very familiar to our board and to town meeting to see your resume and some of the credentials you bring. It's really fantastic. I particularly like the fact that you worked for 10 years, one of my favorite radio stations. Just have one question here. I saw that your graduate projects was building a Mayan translation assistant. I just want to know, when is the world going to end? I wasn't involved in the calendaring end of the project. It was one of my co-workers at the time told me that's what you do at school. It sounds like it's a really interesting research project but sarcastically. I responded that yes, it was a really good interesting research project. For the most part it was basically an image matching and a little bit of digital signal processing kind of stuff. I identify a piece of hieroglyph and now go and find the hieroglyph in your database of hieroglyphs. Fantastic. Well, serious question though. You've obviously been attending the ITAC meetings. In your estimation, what are one of two areas that you would really like to work on and dig into with the IT? In the past year, I guess one of the new things that ITAC did was to take apart in the capital planning process. For the IT related things, there was some extra question and answering in sitting down with department heads to just kind of make sure that they were all the bases were getting covered and that they wouldn't be left with a system product, what not, that either were they underestimated costs, underestimated support, or just wouldn't fulfill their needs. I thought that was a rather interesting process. In terms of things that the well at least in terms of town infrastructure, I'd like to learn a little bit more about would be the town's use of virtualization for town-wide application servers and that sort of thing. I would also be interested in just one of my areas of interest is network security. I think room for some work there as well. Thank you. I don't have, oh, Mr. Dunn. So, also in your resume, Kayak co-founded by an Arlington resident. Yes. And so it's always good to point out, as a member of the startup and VC community in Arlington, it's always good to toot our horn a little bit about how much we've got. One of the first things I did in local government was show before this stand there, before this board, and ask them to disband the data processing advisory board and create the ITAC committee. And that was what Annela Court and I were partners in crime in that, and she was also on that side of the microphone back then. And one of our arguments was that Arlington is filled with really skilled people who can bring some of that expertise in as volunteers. And so you are absolutely doing that. And I just want to say thank you very much because that expertise is exactly what we need as a volunteer and I really appreciate you doing that. Okay. I thought there was Mr. Greeley? Yeah. I was undecided until I read this. Finally, I've done the usual set of things that you'd expect employee number nine at a startup company to do. Firewall configuration, Linux administration, babysitting a variety of network services and occasionally emptying the dishwasher. This is my man. I don't have it written down. I apologize. Did someone make a motion to approve? I did way too early, I think. I missed it early and seconded by Mr. Dunn, so that must be that. Any further discussion? If not all those in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you so much. Thank you. And I apologize. There was something I was going by my novice agenda and I should have looked at everything I had in front of me. We had one other item for the consent agenda. And I see we have our economic development planner here, Mr. Fields, Mr. Ted Fields. It's a temporary sign at the Jefferson Cutter House. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. What is it? I'm going to pull them up. Move by Mr. Cairo. Mr. Fields, if you could come up and... Ted Fields economic development planner. So this is the, you have a text before you. It's a temporary sign that will go in front of the Jefferson Cutter House as a condition for receiving a $65,000 grant from the Mass Historic Commission for helping us with the exterior renovations that you see as you drive by, putting on a new roof, removing rotted siding and putting in new siding, restoring the windows and replacing them and repainting the exterior. Can you just flip that around? We don't have this sign. Oh, okay. I have copies right here. What's on the packet? Thank you. Well, it's a second, in the second meeting that's scheduled for tonight and there actually is a, it is online in there. It's like, it's created as a separate meeting not attached to this meeting. First is a motion by Mr. Cairo. Can I get a second? Second. Second by Mr. Dunn. Any questions, Mr. Dunn? How long does it stay up? It's supposed to stay up for the duration of the construction. Usually, they stay up a little bit longer, maybe two to three or four weeks more. So overall, probably it will be gone by July. Thank you. Any further questions? If not, a motion by Mr. Cairo, seconded by Mr. Dunn. All those in favor say aye. Aye. I suppose unanimous vote. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Field. Sorry, I should have taken you at the beginning. Then correspondence received is sort of two part. First, I would, before we get to correspondence received that we have in our paper form as well as our novice agenda, we do have a memo from our Comptroller, Mr. Viscay, dated May 16, 2016 when my colleagues, which they may have already have a chance to review that, if they would like me along with Mr. Viscay to make this an agenda item or get any further information, whether it's an agenda item or written form, please let me know. And then so moving to correspondence received, which is a one piece of correspondence regarding a dangerous dog hearing request. Did you want to comment on Mr. Viscay's letter? I mean, because when I was chair, when you spoke to me about this issue. Mr. Gurley? But I just want to say it's fine with me. I don't know that we need to make it unless you want it to be. No, it just where he said if we wanted him in to discuss this or had any questions to please let him know, I just wanted to highlight to my colleagues' attention that was there. And unless I hear from somebody I won't take any further action on this. And if people haven't as Mr. Gurley has already spoken to, Comptroller, Mr. Viscay, feel free to do and let me know if there's anything else. Well, I mean, while I was chairman, the issue of the employee was out, him having to need to replace temporary ones. So as of right now, I won't be doing anything unless I hear something different. Correspondence received. Is there a motion to receive? So moved. Moved by Mr. Burns, seconded by second. Mr. Dunn. Mr. Gurley? Well, this seems like a pretty serious issue, this dog attack, which occurred. I wonder should we ask our animal control officer or should we just call for hearing? Mr. Heim, attorney Heim? So the board's relatively recent practice, it's been a little while since we've had a dangerous dog hearing, is to refer for the initial hearing to the police department to hear the complaint and preside over it and issue a decision if that decision is appealed if it can come before the board. Obviously the board can directly take the matter up itself if it so desires, but it's important to get a written complaint to the board so that it can be, if you so choose, referred to the police department for a dangerous dog hearing. So move or refer this to the police. Motion by Mr. Gurley, seconded by Mr. Kearrow. And this is a written complaint, isn't it? Yes, Mr. Gurley, and if I may, the animal control officer is aware of this situation and has been, I believe, in touch with the complainant and has already begun an investigation that will help make sure that a hearing is promptly conducted now that the board has received a complaint and has referred it. Okay. Okay. First on the motion by Mr. Gurley, to refer to the police chief, to our town manager, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye as opposed. And only because I wrote it down, the motion to move or see correspondence by Mr. Kearrow, seconded by Mr. Dunn, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. We will now go down to... I move that we recess and to town meeting, which will hopefully adjourn tonight. And if it doesn't, we will recess again until Wednesday night for town meeting. Motion by Mr. Dunn to go recess down to town meeting, seconded by Mr. Byrne. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. Thank you.